Japan's biowarfare exposed

Up to a million Chinese may have been killed by the Japanese in WWII and the US did a deal giving scientists immunity


REUTERS , NEW YORK
Saturday, Mar 13, 2004,Page 16

A secret Japanese army unit, dubbed Unit 371, sprayed Chinese villages with bacteria, spiked their wells with disease and laced their food with germs, perhaps killing up to a million Chinese in World War II, a new book says.

"There could be over 700,000 or even 1 million" lives lost to Japan's biowarfare program, Daniel Barenblatt, author of A Plague Upon Humanity, said in a recent interview.

The book, published in the US by HarperCollins, tracks Japan's development of biological weaponry from 1931 to 1945 and its use of these weapons -- bubonic plague, typhoid, anthrax and cholera -- on civilians, many of them in China.

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I've read extensively about Unit 731. They had a plan to release Plague in the US but the sub carrying the planes (yes, planes) sank in the pacific.

The worst part was that the head of 731, General Shiro Ishii, was given asylum in the US and put to work at Ft. Detrick, Maryland developing the US biowarfare arsenal.

Rumor has it that he was in Korea too just before a massive outbreak of non-native Hemmhoragic fever struck just north of the 38th parallel.

Check out the book 731 Testimony by Hal Gold for more information. Also, look for the film "Men Behind the Sun" (Dir. T.F. Mou) a documdrama about 731.

history channels had a really good film about the Japanese atrocities. the united states let the director of the unit go because he gave the us military the codes to all the "research".